U.S. Begins Dumping ‘Toxic’ Common Core Over Failing Test Results

Schools across the United States have begun ditching the ‘toxic’ Common Core program due to failing test results as a result of the backwards method of teaching.

The Obama endorsed program saw almost every school in every state in the nation take a huge step backwards by teaching children unnecessarily difficult and convoluted methods of working out simple math problems.

According to Wikipedia, at one point 46 states had adopted Common Core, but now some states are having second thoughts…

46 states initially adopted the Common Core State Standards, although implementation has not been uniform. At least 12 states have introduced legislation to repeal the standards outright, and Indiana has since withdrawn from the standards.

Organized in seven chapters, her book describes how the Gates Foundation promoted and continues to promote one extremely wealthy couple’s uninformed, unsupported, and unsupportable ideas on education for other people’s children while their own children are enrolled in a non-Common Cored private school. It explains how (but not exactly why) the Gates Foundation helped to centralize control of public education in the U.S. Department of Education. It also explains why parents, teachers, local school boards, and state legislators were the last to learn how the public schools their local and state taxes supported had been nationalized without Congressional knowledge or permission; and why they were expected to believe that their local public schools were now accountable for what and how they teach … not to the local and state taxpayers who fund them or to locally-elected school boards that by law are still supposed to set education policies not already determined by their state legislature … but to a distant bureaucracy in exchange for money to their state department of education to close “achievement gaps” between unspecified groups.

But this isn’t just an issue about control. The truth is that the approach to teaching basic fundamentals such as how to add and how to subtract is fundamentally different under Common Core.

Let me share just three examples that show how much Common Core is changing the way that U.S. students learn math. All of these examples have been floating around Facebook, and if you have never seen these before they are likely to make you quite angry.

If I asked you to subtract 12 from 32, how would you do it? Well, the “new way” is much, much more complicated than how we were all taught to do it…

If that first one seemed bizarre to you, than you really aren’t going to like this one…

And this last one was so confusing that a parent with a degree in engineering decided to include his own commentary on his child’s homework…

How are kids supposed to function in the real world if this is how they are learning to do basic math?

Personally, I am going to teach my daughter that 9 + 6 equals 15. But that isn’t how it is supposed to be done under Common Core. You can watch a video of a teacher explaining the very convoluted Common Core way to solve that math equation below:

And of course it isn’t just math that is the problem. Common Core is systematically “dumbing down” our young people, and that may help to explain why the average U.S. college freshman now reads at a seventh grade level.

Since their inception, the Idaho Core Standards have been enmeshed in controversy.

Some legislators and citizens have pushed for a repeal of the Idaho Core Standards, the state’s version of Common Core standards in math and English language arts. Those repeal efforts have gone nowhere in the Legislature.

I don’t know what is wrong with our legislators. The Republicans have full control in this state, and so there is absolutely no excuse for not getting something done.

As I end this article, I want to give you an idea of just how far the quality of education in America has fallen over the past 100 years. In Kentucky, an eighth grade exam from 1912 made a lot of headlines when it was donated to the Bullitt County History Museum. As you can see, it is doubtful whether many of our college students would be able to pass such an exam today…

I remember going to a parent-teacher conference long ago, and I asked the teacher why the kids are being taught something so convoluted to solve simple math, and she had no real answer, other than this is how they want us to teach the kids. I told her that was messed up (only I didn’t use “messed”).

palcau ioan

i couldnt read all this article coz i really really got pissed off!! as Always,a bs ex masonic president tht could change America,like he said b4 was ,,elected,, YES WE CAN! (PUKE)

WhiskeyTangoFauxnews

OT (kind of)… Well, I’ve just been barred from posting comments on ANP… for calling their readers a “chicken little audience”.
Susan is a fascist dictatorship.
ANP actually allows commenters like IcyPeaceMaker to say things like “why do black people smell? So blind people can hate them too” … go unpunished, or even admonished!
Worst I ever did was point out the evil jew… or call a flat-earther gullible.

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WhiskeyTangoFauxnews WhiskeyTangoFauxnews30 minutes ago

And, I stand by my “chicken little audience” comment. Nothing but doom and gloom, playing into (intentionally appealing to) their largly christian audience… take a little doom and gloom, sprinkle on a little scripture and prophecy, they gobble it up like a horse eating oats.
Lots of good people though!… it’s been fun!

Shannon

Common Core standards demand that students understand WHY basic addition and subtraction work they way they do, not just learn the calculations. This makes higher level math much easier on the brain. In addition, today’s college freshman were introduced to the standards as high school sophomores. Guess what standards they were working towards when they learned to read?

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